Jason Kendall
Jason Kendall is news editor of the Shawnee Dispatch.
Recent stories
- Christmas Around Town to light up Shawnee on Saturday
- December 4, 2013
- What was Christmas in Shawnee like 84 years ago?
- Kendall: A kinder, gentler Shawnee public meeting?
- December 4, 2013
- There’s more to it than meets the eye. That was the upshot of a column I wrote in this space, back in August, about Shawnee lawmakers’ ongoing review of the city’s policies regarding how to conduct public meetings.
- Shawnee boutique owner inspires Small Business Saturday push
- November 26, 2013
- Sandwiched between two big holiday shopping days this weekend — Black Friday and Cyber Monday — Small Business Saturday could get lost in the shuffle of countdown deals and blowout prices on flat-screen TVs. But one Shawnee business owner is determined not to let that happen.
- Potential Johnson County legal-notice deal may violate state law
- November 4, 2013
- The Johnson County Commission has moved one step closer to awarding the Kansas City Star and its sister publication The Olathe News a bid for legal notices despite the objection of two Kansas newspapers.
- Fifth Shawnee resident files for Ward 3 council vacancy
- October 22, 2013
- Tony Lauer is the fifth Shawnee resident to file for a Ward 3 City Council seat left vacant by the recent resignation of Dawn Kuhn.
- Master artisan makes glass magic in Merriam
- October 22, 2013
- If you want to train with Dierk Van Keppel, you have to be cool with pain. “I look for people with glasswork experience,” explains the master artisan, who runs Merriam-based Rock Cottage Glassworks from an airy studio behind his home on Farley Street. “They know what it feels like to get hurt.”
- Shawnee City Council: Four apply for Ward 3 seat ahead of council vote
- October 16, 2013
- Shawnee’s City Council is closing in on a vote to appoint its newest member.
- Shawnee Mission Parkway-Woodland Drive intersection project moves forward
- September 24, 2013
- A problem intersection in western Shawnee moved one step closer to getting some help Monday night.
- Shawnee properties featured in Fall Parade of Homes
- September 24, 2013
- When the Greater Kansas City Fall Parade of Homes kicks off Saturday, Greg Prieb Jr. of Prieb Homes Inc. will have seven properties on the list, two of them in Shawnee.
- Natural Grocers gears up to hire for new Shawnee store
- September 23, 2013
- A shopping center overhaul that won $7 million worth of development incentives from the Shawnee City Council in May is taking shape, and its flagship grocery store is getting ready to hire.
Recent photos
Longtime Shawnee resident Beata Foreman opened by B boutique! in July.
By B boutique! in Shawnee specializes in custom gifts, handmade crafts and vintage items.
The art glass globes begin life as a piece of glass the size of a large marshmallow.
Allison Trent holds open one side of the 2,500-degree furnace as a nearly finished art glass globe is fired at Rock Cottage Glassworks in Merriam.
Josh Dickens, Brian Berger and Tyler Kimball put the finishing touches on a large art glass sphere at Dierk Van Keppel's Rock Cottage Glassworks in Merriam. The finished spheres weigh more than 20 pounds.
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Point of View
What’s your favorite place in Shawnee, and why?
“The magic bike path (75th and Pflumm) winds lazily through water and trees. I feel like I’m in fairy tale land!”
